Hong Kong Regulations

HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY LIMITED BY-LAWS - BYLAW 3

Control of couriers and prohibition of soliciting patronage by others

(1) No courier from any hotel, tourist agency or any like organization shall,
in the course of his employment as such, enter or be upon the passenger
terminal situate on, or on any other part of, any pier of the Company three
hours before the expected arrival of any vessel carrying passengers that is to
dock alongside such pier or at any other time while any such vessel is
alongside the pier unless such courier is wearing a uniform clearly indicating
the name of the hotel, tourist agency or other like organization that he
represents.

(2) No hotel, tourist agency or any like organization shall send more than one
uniformed courier, or more than such other number of uniformed couriers as the
Company may in writing permit in any particular case, to meet any vessel at,
or to board any vessel from, any of the Company's piers.

(3) No courier of any hotel, tourist agency or any like organization shall, in
the course of his employment as such, remain upon the passenger terminal
situate on, or other part of, any pier of the Company if there is then present
at that passenger terminal or on any other part of the same pier any other
uniformed courier of the same hotel, tourist agency or organization, whether
such other courier entered upon the passenger terminal or other part of the
pier before or after him, except where the presence on the passenger terminal
or other part of the pier of more than one uniformed courier from the hotel,
tourist agency or organization concerned on the occasion in question, is
permitted under paragraph (2).

(4) Where the presence on any passenger terminal situate on, or on any other
part of, any pier of the Company of more than one courier from any hotel,
tourist agency or other like organization is on any occasion permitted under
paragraph (2), no courier of such hotel, tourist agency or organization shall,
in the course of his employment as such, remain upon the passenger terminal or
other part of the pier concerned if he together with all other couriers in
uniform from the same hotel, tourist agency or organization then present at
the passenger terminal or on any other part of the pier, exceed the number
permitted as aforesaid.

(5) Every courier of an hotel, tourist agency or like organisation shall, on
entering the Company's pier in the course of his employment as such, have in
his possession a list of all passengers whom he is directed to meet and shall,
on demand, produce such list for examination-

   (a)  to any official of the Company; or

   (b)  to any other person who is authorized in writing by the Company to
        examine such lists and who produces such authority.

(6) No courier shall solicit the patronage of any passenger other than a
passenger shown on the list in his possession specified in paragraph (5), and
no other person shall solicit any passenger to patronize any business
whatsoever or in any manner assist the courier of any hotel, tourist agency or
any like organization in soliciting, obtaining or attempting to obtain, the
patronage of any passenger, whether such passenger's name appears on the
courier's list or not, but nothing in this paragraph shall be taken to
prohibit a courier from giving assistance to any passenger who, not having
been solicited by the courier or any person on his behalf, approached the
courier with a request for his assistance.

(7) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by-law shall be
guilty of an offence against these by-laws.